I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
Vincent Van GoghA queer fellow and a jolly fellow is the grasshopper. Up the mountains he comes on excursions, how high I don’t know, but at least as far and high as Yosemite tourists.
John MuirHuman subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da VinciYou can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
Franz KafkaIf one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.
AristotleI love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.
Alice WalkerMy relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.
Edmund HillaryThere is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.
Richard P. FeynmanWalking is man’s best medicine.
HippocratesWhen we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans – an avian flu pandemic.
Barack ObamaThe Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
Hunter S. ThompsonEverything in excess is opposed to nature.
HippocratesI understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.
Alice WalkerListen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
E. E. CummingsIn nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
Charlie ChaplinNever say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
Albert SchweitzerIn the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
Lao TzuI always wanted to do what my brothers were doing. I always wanted to play the games they played and play rough and wear pants and go outside.
RihannaWhat a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
Bill ShanklyA lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.
Bob DylanPlay the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.
Winston ChurchillMan is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise PascalAnytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.
Angelina JolieNature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David ThoreauExtinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
Carl SaganWell, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.
Richard BransonThe pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinMy sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
Robert FrostPoetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
David HareNature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
Francis BaconI hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
Emily DickinsonWhen I was two, a dragonfly flew near me. A man knocked it to the ground and trod on it. I remember crying because I’d caused the dragonfly to be killed.
Jane GoodallI came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinStorms make trees take deeper roots.
Dolly PartonOne of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.
John MuirBarbra Streisand has accomplished so much, and Dustin Hoffman as well. They are down to earth and approachable. I admire that.
Kevin HartThere’s a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you’re self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn’t so easy in a car, and you can’t cover as much ground walking.
David ByrneMen may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
Joseph AddisonWe sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
Blaise PascalThen not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
PlatoBut in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.
Christopher ColumbusI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David ThoreauI told Warren if he mentions Prop. 13 one more time, he has to do 500 push-ups.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerSolitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Winston ChurchillSome people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.
Margaret AtwoodRegarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinNatural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.
George W. BushFollowing the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
Christopher ColumbusCross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
Steven WrightIf you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Khalil GibranIt is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
Edgar Allan PoeOn the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
Edmund HillaryA vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
Tennessee WilliamsA wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
E. E. CummingsNature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.
John MuirWe still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Albert EinsteinLand on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.
Elon MuskA friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo EmersonDeath is just life’s next big adventure.
J. K. Rowling